"Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large,……" — Andrew Solomon
"Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens."
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60 Quotes by Andrew Solomon
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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my…
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Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond…
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical…
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of…
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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.…
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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible…
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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You…
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When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history.…
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Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference…
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Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts…
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The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not…
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the…
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More Affectionate Quotes
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We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house…
— Victoria Beckham
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Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.
— Elayne Boosler
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I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be…
— Kurt Cobain
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an…
— Martin Amis
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I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.
— Hillary Clinton
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Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance…
— John Bunyan
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Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us…
— Abraham Lincoln
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In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections,…
— John Owen
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Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a…
— Dalai Lama
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An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive…
— Dalai Lama
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There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.
— Monica Edwards
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It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could…
— Bruce Fogle
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